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Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024.
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Ariane 6 VA262
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Launch of Ariane 6 VA262 on 9 July 2024 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
James Webb Space Telescope sees an ancient black hole dance with colliding galaxies
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
SpaceX Starship landings could contaminate water ice on the moon
Could human landing systems touching down on the moon deliver water from their rocket exhaust plumes? New research says it's a possibility.
Wil Tirion, 1943–2024
Dutch astrocartographer Wil Tirion will be remembered as the creator of the most beautiful star maps and atlases of our time.
What are blazars?
Discover the fascinating world of blazars: their discovery, formation, and the science behind these energetic cosmic phenomena.
Are there more solar flares than expected during this solar cycle?
We explore why comparing the number of solar flares between solar cycles is more complicated than you may think and why many have got it wrong.
NASA Imagines a Catastrophic Asteroid Impact to Study How to Prevent it
The Netflix movie Don’t Look Up received plenty of accolades for its scarily realistic portrayal of a professor from Michigan State University attempting to warn the world about a civilization-ending asteroid impact. In reality, there are plenty of organizations in the US government and beyond whose job it is to find and avoid those impacts. And the best way to train them to do those jobs is to run scenarios and try to determine what actions would need to be taken. That was the idea behind the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise, held at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in April. NASA recently released a preliminary report on the results of the exercise, with a fully detailed one to come in August.
Vaonis Vespera II smart telescope review
The Vaonis Vespera II is probably the best smart telescope you can buy for the money. Simplicity, style and incredibly clear astrophotographs make it a fantastic instrument.
A Moon Base Will Need a Transport System
Through the Artemis Program, NASA will return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 landed in 1972. Beyond this historic mission, scheduled for September 2026, NASA plans to establish the infrastructure that will enable annual missions to the Moon, eventually leading to a permanent human presence there. As we addressed in a previous article, this will lead to a huge demand for cargo delivery systems that meet the logistical, scientific, and technical requirements of crews engaged in exploration.
Quasars are 'cosmic signposts' pointing to rare supermassive black hole pairs
New research suggests that galaxies with quasars at their active hearts are seven times more likely to harbor elusive supermassive black hole binary paintings than other galaxies.
Watch a supermassive black hole trap a 'fluffy' disk in this simulation
A new computer simulation flies through tangled galaxies and zooms in on a black hole to dissect how these voids feats on surrounding matter.
Astronomers measure 'warp speed' of Milky Way galaxy
The Milky Way is warped, and the alignment of this warp is precessing backwards around the galaxy under the influence of a squashed dark matter halo.
James Webb Space Telescope suggests this exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien ocean
James Webb Space Telescope data suggests the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is a water world in its star's habitable zone that sports a lovely, temperate ocean.
Watch SpaceX launch Turkey's 1st homegrown communications satellite today
SpaceX will launch Turkey's first domestically produced communications satellite today (July 8), and you can watch the action live.
Hurricane Beryl makes landfall as Category 1 hurricane along eastern Texas (video)
The strongest hurricane to occur this early in the year makes landfall in Matagorda, Texas, as a Category 1 early Monday (July 8) morning.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Turkish satellite on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral
The first home-grown communications satellite 6A satellite is encapsulate inside SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings ahead of its planned launch on July 8, 2024. Image: SpaceX
Turkey is poised to launch its first home-grown communications satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Turkey’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu called the Türksat 6A geostationary satellite “the symbol of our independence”.
'Star Trek' legend Jonathan Frakes to direct new series, 'Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime'
Jonathan Frakes will direct a new miniseries adaptation of the "Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime" novels.
Extreme 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet stinks like rotten eggs and has raging glass storms
As if deadly rains of glass, temperatures hot enough to melt lead, and sidewise 5,000 mph winds weren't unfriendly enough, the JWST has found a Jupiter-sized exoplanet also stinks of rotten eggs.
Weird physics at the edges of black holes may help resolve lingering 'Hubble trouble'
The expansion of the universe may not be accelerating at the edges of black holes. If this is the case at all event horizons, this may explain "Hubble tension," and the worst prediction in physics.
The Young Professional Satellite - From Theory to Reality (episode 2)
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In the second episode of this docu series, we take a closer look into what it took to build ESA’s Young Professional Satellite (YPSat). YPSat’s mission objectives are to capture the key moments of Ariane 6’s inaugural flight and take in-orbit pictures of Earth and space. To achieve this, the satellite requires the multiple sub-systems to work in harmony and adhere to a pre-defined mission sequence.
